An electromechanical item which accepts and systematically retains digital input data in such a manner as to facilitate the rapid recovery of stored information. The item may or may not consist of disk(s) some of which are removable, hard, removable disk packs, fixed disks, or removable flexible, each surface coated with a material susceptible to spot magnetization, integral writing, a drive motor and its mechanical linkage, and data translating heads for impressing on or removing from the disk surface data in digital form. the item is a component of an electronic computer. see also, magnetic drum, data storage; core memory unit.
Classification: Other storage units, nesoi
NSN 5975-00-636-4910
NSN 6135-00-062-5080
NSN 6645-01-236-6387
NSN 5985-01-018-1774
NSN 5999-00-515-2442
NSN 6150-01-462-0202
NSN 6240-00-065-6812
NSN 6610-01-097-5073
NSN 4140-01-146-4474
NSN 5925-01-599-8670
NSN 5895-00-480-5892
NSN 6610-00-184-0833